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India’s army and airforce were dropping emergency food supplies to tens of
thousands of stranded tourists and Hindu pilgrims last night after
devastating floods hit the country’s mountainous north killing at least 130
people.

Torrential monsoon rains have left about 63,000 people cut off from the rest
of the country while thousands of others are still missing in the Himalayan
states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, the site of famous Hindu shrines
which were packed with visitors when the floods hit.

“At least 110 people have died,” said Yashpal Arya, disaster relief minister
of Uttarakhand, often known as “Land of